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This Wiki is for APU music education students and professors to have a shared space for communicating and collaborating!
Dr. Koops

APU students, please join our APU music education facebook page!
Look under APU in face book and go to "Music Education majors (UG)"

Please note the various pages we have on this wiki, and add more as you feel they are needed:
Advising
Alumni
Books and Resources
Concerts or Recitals
Events and discussion
Recordings of great musicians for use as examples in music education

Big news! New National Standards of Music Education are being finalized:
http://nccas.wikispaces.com/Music+Standards+Drafts+January+30%2C+2013

Also, please note other websites, wikis and blogs that you feel maybe of interest to music educators here:
APU Symphonic Band wiki
IMTE: Instrumental Music Teacher Educators
Koops conducting resources page
NAfME
California Music Educators Association
Texas Music Educators Association
SCSBOA (Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association)
ACDA (American Choral Directors Association)
American String Teachers Association
The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) http://www.apassion4jazz.net/iaje.html
OAKE Organization of American Kodaly Educators

http://www.laorff.org/LA_ORFF/Home.html
LA Orff Workshops

www.musictheoy.net - has exercises in ear training, rhythm, intervals. It also has other topics with lessons.
http://www.artistshousemusic.org/articles/top+25+web+sites+for+music+education - this has a list of 25 websites to help with music education.
http://www.realbooksite.com/ - this has a bunch of jazz standards with backing tracks/lead sheets
http://www.lds.org/music/conducting-music/conducting-course-book-and-audio-examples?lang=eng - This is a Conducting Course


“Ah music, a magic beyond all we do here!” (Albus Dumbledore as quoted on p. 95, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone)